Walmart, long criticized for underpaying workers, seems particularly eager to shed that label. The world's biggest retailer revealed this week that its store managers earn an average of $175,000 a year -- that's nearly four times the roughly $47,000 a typical U.S. worker makes.
Full-time workers at Walmart earn $14.26 per hour, which comes to just under $30,000 a year and is nearly double the federal hourly minimum wage of $7.25 (More than half the company's hourly U.S. employees are full-time, according to Walmart, suggesting that many of its workers are part-time and may earn less.) The lowest starting wage for any worker at Walmart, full-time or part-time, is $11 an hour, according to the company.
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